I cannot understand the attraction for vinyl in the first place when you can stream noiselessly for a whole lot money and you never have to get off your seat to change a record. Turn tables are really cool looking but they also collect a lot of dust. I think one of these days we will see turn tables in museums and the young people will wonder why people ever bought them.
Young people actually buying turntables right now, normally very cheap turntables, but they want it, believe it or not. Those young cats born in the digital era having fun with vinyl and turntables, because it’s a physical object and the best media format ever made. It’s cool and nothing can replace it. Digital is just a free bonus and a part of our digital life nowadays, but vinyl is something special and this is why a lot of cool records getting more and more expensive over the years, while digital versions available for free. What young cats never buying is CDs.
Digital podcasts and radiostation stream ... this is all cool to discover music to buy on vinyl.
Perhaps people who like vinyl like noise with their music in order to replicate music hear during the 1920’s to 1950’s?
Noise is everywhere outside your window if you’re living in the big city, from your neighbours etc ... Maybe it’s noise free in the bunker or in the private house somewhere in the woods ? But living in the big city is not noise free, unfortunately. The noise from vinyl is hard to detect in the normal listening session.
I’m not sure that music from the 1920 is interesting for young generation, but music from the 60s, 70s, 80s was a source for sampling for next generation of music producers and actually modern music based on samples, this is why for young generation the original source of samples is something interesting, people may never heard the original before, only via their favorite producers who samples very short piece of music from the past to build everything around these beautiful pieces, because modern producers often can’t even play real instruments - this is also a part of the digital era, the era of sampling.
Vintage vinyl and music from the 70’s era is amazing source for new discoveries when musicians and recording engineers were trained to make it live (not edits, often in one take in the studio).